VIDEO: Raushan Orazbaeva on qobyz
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
I don't need a church to ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton ...
VIDEO: Zikr: A Polish for the Heart - Alwaez Akbar Huda
In this video, the speaker takes us through a journey of the soul and how one may polish the heart so that it shines in the light of Allah. "For everything, there is a polish, and the polish for the hearts is the zikr (remembrance) of Allah. There is nothing more potent in saving a person from the punishment of Allah than the ...
Livro do mês: outubro
Portugal -- "The Prophet Muhammad", por Stephen Burge, apresenta um retrato esclarecedor de Hazrat Muhammad na sua qualidade de mensageiro de Deus e uma figura exemplar para os muçulmanos. English Revelando os desafios e os triunfos da profecia, Stephen Burge examina como os profetas inspiraram a relação das comunidades de fé com o Divino e uns com os outros. Ao fazê-lo, ...
VIDEO: Ya Ali Madad song
The Ismaili is pleased to present "Ya Ali Madad," performed by the Dhun Kids. The song features young members of the Jamat greeting each other across the world, and illustrates our shared sense of community, regardless of where we come from. ...
Last Few Days Before We Bid Farewell to Aga Khan Park's Vibrant 2020 Autumn Colours
By MALIK MERCHANT Publsher/Editor Simergphotos, Simerg and BarakahRed maple trees at Aga Khan Park reach peak colours during the autumn of 2020. Photo: © Malik Merchant / Simerg. In a little less than 7-10 days, the rich colours of the maple trees you see in the photos below, will be no more at the beautiful Aga Khan Park in Toronto. Heaps ...
Time To Think: Ginans - Ismaili Religious Literature from South Asia with Hussain Jasani
Ginans - Ismaili religious literature originating from the religious-cultural context of the Indian Subcontinent, have sometimes been viewed as "lacking Islamic personality". This talk will challenge this view and introduce audiences to multiple examples of religious poetry used by various Muslim traditions from the region to highlight typical characteristics of the literature that are greatly influenced by South Asian cultural contexts. The talk will also introduce the audience to multiple IIS publications that one can turn to in order to learn more and gain further insights into this topic. ...
Let Storms Beware
Karim H. Karim's beautiful poem is followed by a brief note from the editor as well as some pictures that he set off to take at Toronto's Aga Khan Park, shortly after he had been inspired by the poem. By KARIM H. KARIM (Dedicated to all who are sad) Sweetest are the songs That we sing in sorrows; Tears swell in ...
Trailer: "Something the Lord Made" -- Based on a True Story
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- Emotional, fact-based drama of revolution and racism about a wealthy white surgeon and a poor black lab tech, without a college degree, who work together, during segregation between the 1930s and 1940s, to achieve a medical breakthrough -- heart bypass surgery -- that changed the world. ...
Full Length Movie: "Something the Lord Made" -- Based on a True Story
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Highly recommended (also has an 8.2 IMDB rating)!] ARTICLE: Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist, leaves Vanderbilt for Johns Hopkins taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, is a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas take on the challenge of blue babies and invent bypass surgery. After trials on dogs, their first patient is baby Eileen, sure to die without the surgery. In defiance of custom and Jim Crow segregation laws (instituted by Democrats after the Civil war), Blalock brings Thomas into the surgery to advise him, but when Life Magazine and kudos come, Thomas is excluded. Will he receive his due? ...
Johnny Murtagh joins Aga Khan trainers
Group 1 winning jockey and trainer to receive Aga Khan Studs yearlings. The Aga Khan Studs are delighted to announce that Johnny Murtagh is to join their roster of trainers in Ireland alongside Dermot Weld and Michael Halford, and will receive a draft of yearlings this year. Five-time Irish Champion Jockey, Johnny Murtagh took out his trainers' license in 2013 and ...
Part 2: Cosmopolitan Ethics vs. Pluralism: Have the two been fundamentally misunderstood? Why are there limits to pluralism? | Ignition Question #4b
In Part 1, of this two-part Ignition Question, we suggested that although cosmopolitan ethics may sound very scholarly, arcane or enigmatic it might not be so we proposed a more practical and comprehensible perspective of cosmopolitan ethics based on Hazar Imam's clear explanations about them. Here, in Part 2, again relying on Hazar Imam's extensive remarks, we reconsider the relationship between cosmopolitan ethics and pluralism, suggesting the two have been conflated leading to a fundamental misunderstanding of pluralism, which Hazar Imam has also said is "sometimes misunderstood." We then consider how pluralism degenerates into license, or unfettered individual freedom, because of this misunderstanding.
Global Group 1 Treble for Siyouni
Sottsass, St Mark's Basilica and Etoile all star for Bonneval sire. SIYOUNI has taken the limelight over the past fortnight, with three top-level successes in three countries thanks to SOTTSASS, St Mark's Basilica and ETOILE. Last year's Prix du Jockey Club winner SOTTSASS set the ball rolling for his sire in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on 4th October. Under ...
IIS alumna Zahira Virani Appointed as UN Resident Coordinator in Angola
News story -- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Zahira Virani of Canada as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Angola, with the host Government's approval. Zahira Virani is a graduate of the GPISH class of 1997; she completed a Master of Science from the London School of Economics in the UK. Official Announcement: ...
Building from the Inside Out
USA -- Creating a functional space begins by building from the heartspace. No one embodies this more than Danish Kurani, founder of the design firm Kurani. Straying from traditional architectural approaches, Danish invests deeply in understanding the culture and needs of the community that will inhabit the spaces he designs before ever going to the drawing board. Danish Kurani at the ...
Learn conversational sign language with new programme on The Ismaili TV
Global -- Talking Hands is an initiative by AKEB and AKSWB UK that introduces viewers to British Sign Language (BSL). The eight-episode series will air weekly on The Ismaili TV, with different topics covered in each lesson. Viewers will build up their sign vocabulary and be able to have basic everyday conversations in BSL. In the UK alone, one in six ...
VIDEO: Reza Aslan -- Zealot: The Life of Jesus of Nazareth | FCNL
Reza Aslan, Author of Zealot: Jesus of Nazareth, speaks at FCNL's 2013 Annual Meeting. Zealot is a historical account of the life of Jesus and analyzes the various religious perspectives on Jesus as well as the creation of Christianity. Aslan argues that Jesus was a political, rebellious and eschatological (end times) Jew whose proclamation of the coming kingdom of God. ...
VIDEO: Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- "Sunnism and Shi'ism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the history of the relationship between Sunnism and Shi'ism, which goes back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Dr. Nasr discussed the manipulation for political interests of Sunni-Shi'ite differences by forces both internal and external to the Islamic world and reflected on the future of the relationship between Sunnism and Shi'ism. ...
VIDEO: Goy Goy, Uljan Baibosynova, Raushan Orazbaeva
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
On October 19, 1957 Mawlana Hazar Imam's first Masnadnashini ceremony was held
Mawlana Hazar Imam succeeded his grandfather to the Imamate on July 11, 1957. To mark his accession, several ceremonies were held, the first in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) on October 19, 1957.Source: Ilm, July 1977 "My grandfather often reminded you that we are living in the atomic age. But what in fact do we mean by this? Certainly we ...
Short Videos: Ismailis Keep Unique Culture Alive on Roof of the World; and 2 Canadians Bike Through Wilderness of the Pamirs
In the 11th century, Nasir Khushraw came to the Pamirs, and brought the Shiite Ismaili branch of Islam to the region. Today, two religious traditions 2000-3000 years apart, continue to co-exist in a remote corner of the earth. Watch the short cultural video in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty by clicking HERE or on image below. Next, watch a video of two Canadians, Christian Meier ...
Farhan Shah, Shahid Rehman (Udan Khatola) and JollyGul.com Special Presentation: "Saavan" feat. Ustaad Islamuddin Meer
JollyGul.com has now released, jointly with Farhan Shah, the much anticipated "Saavan" song. "Saavan" (Monsoon Season) is a "thumri" - an Indian vocal form based on the romantic-devotional literature inspired by ...
Elon Musk Tweet Shows Why Many Doubt Origin of Life Studies
MINDMATTERS.AI -- Even assuming that a living thing could be built from scratch, there is a bigger problem. Life reproduces. Life produces life. We often view this as a mundane fact but it is actually quite profound. A lot goes into the ability to replicate. A replicating part needs to able to reproduce everything, including the reproduction mechanism. In other words, the whole system -- the living thing and its replication system -- must be in place for anything to work at all, otherwise we won't get anywhere. It can't "evolve" to this point, because, before this point, there is nothing that is capable of evolution. This is the reason for much of the public skepticism of origin of life research. This week, in a tweet, Elon Musk put his finger on the issue. When referring to ...
VIDEO: Erkemai, Nadira Pirmatova, Uljan Baibosynova, Raushan Orazbaeva
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
Part 14 -- Giving; Generosity; Beneficence & Benevolence; Prodigality -- Maxims of Ali
GOOGLE.COM -- Most noble actions are bearing the debts of others, and entertaining one's guests. ~~ Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less. ~~ Give to a poor man before he asks; for if you place him under the necessity of stretching out his hand, you take from his self-respect more than the value of your alms. ~~ Return not evil for good; for that is to obstruct benevolence. ~~ The last generosity is to forget the claim that you have against another, and to remember the right that someone has over you. ~~ Whosoever confers a benefit on an undeserving man wastes it. ~~ Hide the good you do, and ...
AKEPB Checklist For Finding A New Job
UK -- Checklist For Finding A New Job(Last updated 17/10/2020) Menu Introduction | Raise Your Industry Profile | Prepare For The Job Search Early | Change Of Industry Or Location | Freelancing Or A Temporary Position | Multiple Employment Channels | Your Brag List | Keep Working On Your Skills | Step Outside Of Your Comfort Zone | Keep A Positive ...
VIDEO: Qalu Balaa | Life and works of Bulleh Shah | Episode 3
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Time To Think: A Glimpse into the Past: A Window to the Future with Dr Shainool Jiwa
Our history offers a rich repository of our beliefs and values, and how we have lived by them through the centuries. This talk explores select examples from the Dawr al-Satr (765-909 CE) and the Fatimid period (909-1171 CE) of our history, to illustrate how the Imams and the leadership at the time dealt with challenging circumstances of their age, using them as a springboard for laying stronger foundations for the future of the Jamat across various regions of the world. ...
VIDEO: Ej Dilbari Janon, Nodira Pirmatova
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
VIDEO: In Conversation with Oleg Grabar (Part 3)
Following part 2 of "In Conversation with Oleg Grabar", part 3 concludes the series of recordings made with the scholar. Oleg Grabar received the Chairman's Award of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the field of Islamic art and architecture. In the videos, he talks with three of his former students: Renata Holod, ...
Sadruddin Noorani: ChandRaat of Rabi' al-Awwal, Hijri 1442 - October 17, 2020
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA Principle of Imamat: The Rope of Allah The Holy Qur'an, Ayah an-Nur (the Light) 24:35 reveals that "Allah sets forth parables for humankind." It uses many ...
Food Insecurity and Hunger: Reflecting on My Personal Struggles (@Desiliciousrd) (@aplaceforfood)
"I was in the middle of my exams, stressed and anxious. The amount of revision left was overwhelming. I stretched on the floor of my tiny room, and subconsciously ventured to ...
Extreme Tehran Street Food Tour! 500kg Lamb Platter + 7 Other Foods!
YOUTUBE.COM -- THE FOOD RANGER -- Tehran is one of the oldest and most vibrant cities in the world and has one of the BEST street food scenes too! Today we'll be tasting lots of traditional and authentic Iranian street food -- including the amazing 500kg meat platter and going deep into one of the old bazaars of Tehran! We found a MASSIVE bakery serving traditional Iranian food like Persian bread soaked with date syrup! And then the most buttery Koobideh kabab wrap! It was SOAKED with butter and incredibly juicy! We're also having Persian sandwiches and energy drinks too, incredible kababs, saffron rice, bbq, Iranian haleem, breakfast, and more!!! Next up, we're going to a local ...
VIA ZOOM: Circles of Reflection: Exploring Mawlana Hazar Imam's Speeches
VIA ZOOM -- Ismaili Institutions for Canada (Jamat from around the world are welcome) -- We invite the Jamat to discuss and share their perspectives about Mawlana Hazar Imam's 1967 Peshawar University speech. ~~ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020: 1pm Vancouver/Los Angeles/Seattle ~ 2pm Calgary/Denver ~ 3pm Winnipeg/Chicago/Houston ~ 4pm Toronto/New York/Miami ~ 5:30pm St. John's ~ 9pm Lisbon/London/Kinshasa/Luanda ~ 10pm Paris/Madrid/South Africa/Bujumbura/Maputo/Kigali ~ 11pm Nairobi/Kampala/Dar es Salaam/Antananarivo ~ 11:59pm Dubai ~~ IMPORTANT: REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SUNDAY at 10am Vancouver ~ 11am noon Calgary ~ 12noon Winnipeg ~ 1pm Toronto ~ 6pm London ~ 7pm Paris ~ 8pm Nairobi ~ 9pm Dubai. ...
VIDEO: In Conversation: Olivia Shortt & Du Yun
Explore the outer limits of musical performance and creativity in this one-on-one conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, musician, and performance artist Du Yun and X Avant XV festival co-organizer and Music Gallery artistic associate Olivia Shortt. This wide-ranging discussion will touch upon projects old and new, including Du Yun's Future Traditions initiative, the relationship between collaboration and creativity, and the importance of ...
Imamat Ismaili adquire o Palacete Leitão em Lisboa
Portugal -- O Imamat Ismaili adquiriu o Palacete Leitão, localizado na Rua Marquês da Fronteira, em Lisboa. O Palacete é adjacente ao atual Palacete Henrique Mendonça que, a 11 de julho de 2018, foi designado por Mawlana Hazar Imam como o Diwan do Imamat Ismaili. English A transferência foi concluída a 8 de outubro de 2020, com o Representante Diplomático do ...
GALLERY: Ensuring food security and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers
Ensuring tangible food security, agricultural development and sustainable resource management has been at the centre of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)'s activities since it began. Agriculture remains the single largest employer in the world, providing livelihoods for 40 percent of today's global population. The world's 500 million small farms worldwide provide up to 80 percent of the food consumed. However, 800 ...
Editor's Choice: RoundUp -- Spirituality in Islam for Humanity Today
Editor's Choice -- RoundUp -- Spirituality in Islam for Humanity Today Today, Islam tends to be articulated in terms of its political, ritual, and legal doctrines, and its deep and profound spiritual dimensions are largely neglected. Consequently, the impact Islam's spirituality can have on our well-being today is larely unexamined. The following talks introduce some aspects of Islam's spirituality. We ...
